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Around the A-10: 2024–25 Edition

With VCU losing to Dayton, we are in an interesting spot tomorrow. We lose to George Mason, then VCU has to share championship with George Mason (VCU still gets the 1 seed). However, I really want to beat Mason tomorrow so they don’t get a share of the championship after last year. Would be sweet revenge. Whether we can beat them tomorrow, don’t really know, but it sure would be nice.
 
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Rothstein arguing that VCU is likely cooked for an at-large with tonight's loss.

idk why anyone would listen to him on bracketelogy. and of course Lunardi too. always funny when I see Lunardi referenced in articles, which is often, such as Lunardi as so & so as a 9 seed. Lunardi is bad at bracketology!

I'd love to see VCU out. but they are 29 in kenpom and 31 in net which is the ncaa metric. 95% of power teams would be locks with those rankings. meanwhile these guys have Oklahoma in. OU who is 5-12 in the SEC. 5-12. gtfo. I guess they'll begrudgling move OU out when they lose to TX today.

VCU issue is they have beaten 0 teams in the field. Colorady State is nice win tho and CSU now being on the bubble helps. Factors still out there to hurt VCU. like u can't lose in quarters. But they won't. They r more likely to win A10 tourney now too. And tbd if 2025 has more bid stealers than normal, less bid stealers, or average.

I hope they're right. but again why would u trust those guys. VCU is still right there. to say likely cooked is absurd. I would feel lot better about defending that if it weren't vcu.
 
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yeah it's like Lunardi basically "invented" bracketology but then a thousand others came along and perfected it. Rothstein I thought used to be a champion of the midmajors but maybe he's auditioning for an espn role showing how much he can love on the P5's ha!

as far as VCU, nobody knows what their resume or 20 other bubble teams resumes will look like a week from now, they could be much better or much worse than it stands today. I will say that is unsettling for the future if the A10 turns out to be a 1 bid league as the 7th rated conference out of 31.
 
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Not really anything new here, but Bernie again mentioning the $1m–$3m range.

“I think from everything that’s been benchmarked across the country, we’re feeling like that probably is the range that it’s going to be important,” said McGlade, in the Richmond area for the A-10 women's tournament at the Henrico Sports & Events Center. “And I think each institution’s going to have to really take a good, hard look at their own program and try to figure out what they can really manage financially to be able to continue to be nationally relevant in the sport of men’s basketball, as a basketball-centric league."

 
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